How In All Wonder Columbus Got Over Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDDEE AFAFGGGHHDE EIJ AAAKKEEEE

How in all wonder Columbus got overA
That is a marvel to me I protestB
Cabot and Raleigh too that well read roverA
Frobisher Dampier Drake and the restB
Bad enough all the sameC
For them that after cameC
But in great Heaven's nameC
How he should ever thinkD
That on the other brinkD
Of this huge waste terra firma should beE
Is a pure wonder I must say to meE
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How a man ever should hope to get thitherA
E'e'n if he knew of there being another sideF
But to suppose he should come any whitherA
Sailing right on into chaos untriedF
Across the whole oceanG
In spite of the motionG
To stick to the notionG
That in some nook or bendH
Of a sea without endH
He should find North and South AmerikeeD
Was a pure madness as it seems to meE
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What if wise men had as far back as PtolemyE
Judged that the earth like an orange was roundI
None of them ever said 'Come along followJ
Sail to the West and the East will be found '-
Many a day beforeA
Ever they'd touched the shoreA
Of the San SalvadorA
Sadder and wiser menK
They'd have turned back againK
And that he did not but did cross the seaE
Is a pure wonder I must say to meE
And that he crossed and that we cross the seaE
Is a pure wonder I must say to meE

Arthur Hugh Clough



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